to be or not to be an Intel CPUs collector only ?

[plan b]

hi guys,
I'm not a new here. just registred one more time.
not a big secret but i'd like be a little bit incognito.

i'm not an intel fan.
certainty Intel is the first and the bigest CPU's manufacturer.
i'm thinking about to move into Itel collecting only.
why? because of now i see it's unreal to collect everything completely.
i have some interesting non-intel chips in my collection.
probably it's good idea to trade them for Intel ones to make my collection more ponderable but not uncoordinated.

what would you say?

[doccybrown]

Hello and welcome!
Yes it is as good as impossible to collect every
CPU (esp. in all of the variations there are).
And some are so rare that you will never
see them in real life!
So a) collect only one manufacturer and get
it pretty complete (and chase boring variations,
like one egg after the other with amazing different numbers...) or
b) collect all manufacturers and less complete but
maybe with a lot of variations of the common types or
c) get ONE chip each from every manufacturer
per type. Many types are only made by one
manufacturer (the deep Intel-jungle is unique)
This is the rational way without much pain.
Gives you a nice, interesting, mixed and compact collection.
For every beginner I strongly recommend c.

[iguana]

Author must have "plan c" nikname ?

[D.8080]

Is this a question of monogamy?
Are you a swan?

Go and chase all those beauties out there!!!

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Concentrate on Intel's, but if in the process you can get others too, take them.

[plan b]

that's a really useful info for beginers. thank you, Doccy.
the problem is it looks that i'm not a beginer
70+ manufacturers and 1000+ CPUs in my collection

[Qwerty]

In my opinion you shouldn't restrict yourself to Intels only. There are so many beautiful chips to collect!



P.S.: If you want to be incognito - you should change your writing style, so nobody will be able to recognize you.
You know - I visit this forum incognito from time to time. To make sure that nobody recognises me - I only speak about cheap V.GRA which can be purchased somewhere

[vezhlys]

I think it is good to have some restrictions. It is easier to collect. However, there are so many Intel cpus (and even in several architectures) that I don't see how you will coordinate your collection more than now... It is almost the same as to collect everything in my opinion. You need more specific goals then and good willpower to reject everything else .

[JAC]

Collect what you want, but DO NOT TRY GET EVERYTHING IN EACH TYPE. You will go out of money and insane.

[multifusk]

I wonder if it gets a little boring in the long run, only to collect Intels. It is OK to limit your collection.
I have chosen only to collect X86 CPU, from the start of 8086/88 up to and including Pentium Pro and Socket 7, but that includes all brands. Especially Cyrix I would not do without, because their chips are small works of art.
I am aware that I can never collect all the chips within this limit, but it's just good, because then I can continue collecting forever.

[Chiefish]

Its funny you should ask this. I have begun the shift over myself, and will only be collecting intels with some small exceptions of intel parts made by other manufacturers.
And the exception on the two catagories of TRW and AMD chips I also have a deep variety of. The way I see it is that I would rather have a smaller collection with wayy more detail to the variations of the chips within.
If you look at the chips on my site I try to collect as many as I can that are variations of a particular chip Example would be D8080,C8080,C8080A,C8080a-1 ect. And to top it all off I do not have unlimited resources to aquire my chips with. So I must limit what I buy. If I could afford to buy whatever i wanted whenever I wanted it that would be a different story.
So to sum it all up I would rather have a more detailed and complete collection of chips rather than a giant collection of all hodgpodged chips mixed together.

[doccybrown]

[plan b]

ok.
i took my best non-Intel chips in my hands and...
now i see i don't want to change my collection style.
and probably to collect all the sspecs is even harder.
the "crisis" has almost passed
thank you guys!

[Tetrium]

I had to make this decision a couple years ago myself. In the end I decided to use a broad approach as when I were to concentrate on a limited area of collection (pardon my crappy English!) I would bump into a lot of interesting hardware which I then would have to pass on, as it wouldn't fit my 'working area'.
Now with my broad approach, I can take what I want!